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Life on Venus?
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To confirm life on other planets, we need to detect far more molecules in their atmospheres than we currently do
Key Building Block for Organic Molecules Discovered in Meteorites
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New discovery may validate theories of the formation of organic compounds in extraterrestrial environments.
Hubble Pins Down Weird Exoplanet with Far-Flung Orbit
Dec 11, 2020
A planet in an unlikely orbit around a double star 336 light-years away may offer a clue to a mystery much closer
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What You Need to Know About Astrobiology
This video from NASA’s What you Need to Know series tackles the questions of astrobiology. How did life begin on Earth? Does life exist beyond our home planet? How do we search for it? These are the really tough questions astrobiologists want to answer by studying life as we know it.
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DecodeHer (rebroadcast)
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